1. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA A27.8.31

2. Guiding Question 1 Why did people settle in the British North American colonies? Did people come for primarily economic concerns or for religious/idealistic motivations?

3. Guiding Question 2 Why and How did the British North American colonies develop into distinctively different societies and economies? Regions: (1) the Chesapeake and Lower South, (2) New England, (3) Mid-Atlantic.

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6. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century

7. VIRGINIA CHESAPEAKE

8. Roanoke Colony, 1584-1590

9. Virginia Company, Charter, 1606

10. Chesapeake Bay &Jamestown &Jamestown

11. Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated) Settlement of Virginia Virginia Company Jamestown John Smith John Rolfe Tobacco “starving time” House of Burgesses indentured servants headright system

12. Early Colonial Tobacco 1618 1618 — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco. 1622 1622 — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco. 1627 1627 — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco. 1629 1629 — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.

13. Tobacco Prices 1618-1710

14. Life in Early Virginia, 1620- 1670s “plantations” society economy quality of life religion? River Plantations in Virginia, c. 1640

15. Social Hierarchy in the Chesapeake Tobacco was the basis of wealth & cause of social inequalities The owners of tobacco plantations Small farmers were the largest class; Came as indentured servants; most were very poor Indentured servants were often mistreated African slaves There were very few women

16. 17 th Century Population in the Chesapeake

17. Social Unrest in the Chesapeake Bacon’s rebellion – causes Backcountry settlement and Protection Power of “eastern” elites and Taxation –significance Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia, 1676

18. Significance of Bacon’s Rebellion First large rebellion in colonies (political & social) Social/political conflict : “eastern” elites vs. backcountry Catalyst in transition from indentured servitude to slavery

19. Reasons for Slavery Decrease in indentured servants –English economy Increase in availability of slaves –end of Royal African company monopoly –Decrease in price Fears of growing number of landless freemen Available supply from Caribbean

20. Population of Chesapeake Colonies: 1610-1750

21. The Atlantic Slave Trade “middle passage”

22. Slave Trade

23. Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

24. Estimated Number of Africans Imported to British North America, 1701 – 1775

26. Slavery Where was slavery legal? In which colonies did it exist? Africans as a Percentage of Total Population of the British Colonies, 1650–1770

27. The Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeent h Century

28. Deep South Carolina (1682) Georgia (1738) rice indigo The West Indies and Carolina in the Seventeenth Century Indigo Rice

29. Early Carolin a, circa 1710

30. The Carolinas and Georgia

31. Spread of Settlement: British Colonies, 1650 – 1700

32. NEW ENGLAND

33. In what ways was colonial New England different from colonial Virginia?

34. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century

35. English Migration, 1610-1660

36. Plymouth “Pilgrims” –“Separatists” Plymouth Mayflower Compact Mayflower II

37. Massachusetts Bay Puritans –“purify” Great Migration “City upon a hill”

38. New England towns town meetings church Education “Old Satan Deluder” Act (1647) Harvard College (1636) merchants Land Division in Sudbury, MA: 1639-1656

39. What functions could this building have served in New England?

40. Population of the New England Colonies

41. Social Hierarchy in New England Local “elite” were religious leaders who ran town meetings Large population of small-scale farmers who were loyal to the local community Small population of landless laborers, servants, & poor Religion was the center of society

42. Puritan “Rebels” Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson

43. New England Colonies, 1650

44. King Philip’s War, 1675 – 1676)

45. MIDDLE COLONIES

46. Colonies in Eastern North America 1650

47. New Netherlan d & New Sweden

48. New York New Netherland (1613) – Who? Why? Patroonships >>> New York (1664) society economy

49. Pennsylvania William Penn Quakers society economy Indian relations Royal Land Grant to Penn

50. Middle Colonies, 1685

51. Area of English settlement by 1700

52. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century

53. Britain's American Empire, 1713